Quotes by Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he’d just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Book

Brilliant

Impossible

Clinton is a big personality who has led a big life, and for some of the media conventional wisdom to boil it down to a view that ‘all people are really interested in’ are a few moments of madness in the Oval Office gets him, the importance of the presidency, and the significance of his life, all wrong.

Media

People

Views

Don’t accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Accepting

Crisis

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

People

Sells

Want

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

Liars

Paper

Telling The Truth

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that’s where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Down And

Happiness

Thinking

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

Dykes

Jobs

Records

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about ‘The Independent.’ And that was wrong.

Believe

Independent

Paper

I remember talking to Alex Ferguson about Tony [Blair] and Gordon [Brown], and he said: “Why doesn’t Tony just get rid of him?” But if you sack someone in football, they can’t turn up to training the next day. In politics they’re still on the pitch. Gordon would still have been a big player.

Football

Next Day

Player

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

Life Is

Routine

Used

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Accepting

Alpha Male

America

Believe

Book

Brilliant

Christmas

Country

Crisis

Cutting

Daredevil

Decision

Down And

Dykes

Eye

Fans

Football

Games

Happiness

Happy Life

Impossible

Independent

Jobs

Leader

Liars

Life Is

Males

Media

Mother

Next Day

Obstacles

Paper

People

Play

Player

Political

Politician

Queens

Records

Regulation

Responsibility

Routine

Self

Sells

Sometimes

Sports

Stars

Taken

Team

Telling The Truth

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Quotes by Alastair Campbell

Alastair Campbell

As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he’d just been one of those things, the options are obvious.

Don’t accept that you are in crisis just because everyone says you are.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

For all that the papers would say I was a liar, I took the words I was saying at briefings as seriously as Tony Blair took what he would say at the Despatch Box. I find it very difficult not to tell the truth. I felt I was accountable for what I said.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that’s where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

Greg Dyke is on record as saying that once the BBC was attacked, it was their job to defend themselves. But that is not their job.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about ‘The Independent.’ And that was wrong.

I used to be very routine-based and the new thing in my life is not having a clear, full-time existence.

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